Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.