In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.

I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.