The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.