I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.