Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.