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

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

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

Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.