The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.