Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.