It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

What you get free costs too much.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.