It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

We all must try to be good.