It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
... every little boy thinks he invented sin.
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
But a man needs company.
Time is the only critic without ambition.