I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.