Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Dogs are a habit, I think.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.