I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

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?

It is such a relief to be told the truth.