As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island.

Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.