I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.