I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.