The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
...chaos doesn't run the whole show.
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.