We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.