Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.

There are no prizes for average performance.

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

Resentments are like stray dogs,if you don't pet them, they will go away.