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

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

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

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

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

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.