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

some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Fashions in sin change.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.