Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

To write is a humiliation.