What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress.

Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.