Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.