And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.