There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

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

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.