If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.
The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.