To Travel Is To Discover That Everyone

Indifference To All The Refinements Of Life--it's Really Shocking. Just Calvinism, That's All. Calvinism Without The Excuse Of Calvin's Theology.

Addiction Is An Increasing Desire For An Act That Gives Less And Less Satisfaction

Like Every Man Of Sense And Good Feeling, I Abominate Work.

What A Gulf Between Impression And Expression! That’s Our Ironic Fate—to Have Shakespearean Feelings And (unless By Some Billion-to-one Chance We Happen To Be Shakespeare) To Talk About Them Like Automobile Salesmen Or Teen-agers Or College Professors. We Practice Alchemy In Reverse—touch Gold And It Turns Into Lead; Touch The Pure Lyrics Of Experience, And They Turn Into The Verbal Equivalents Of Tripe And Hogwash.

In The World Of Ideas Everything Was Clear; In Life All Was Obscure, Embroiled.