Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.