Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.