He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.