Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.