It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.