Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

My mind is not suited to go much into company.

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

Language is memory and metaphor.

As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.