You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

I work as my father drank.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.