The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

For every man there is a deep longing

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.