it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

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

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

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

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.