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

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

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.

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

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