The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.