Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

Keep your exclamation points under control!

They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.