Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

Only the small things in life are important