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

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

It's a mining town in lotus land.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.