No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.