If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

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

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.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

People who keep journals have life twice

The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.