Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

Life is about making right things and going on.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.