Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.