Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.

How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.