A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.
I have no wish to take life, not even human life
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.