"The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"