The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

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.

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

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.