Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

Courage and fear were one thing too.

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.