But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.