You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.