Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.