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

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.