words can never get at the truth.

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.