Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart