nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

You can't have genius without patience.