“We are all mad at three in the morning”

“By the age I was then I ought to know the truism that things always look different in the morning. As the night comes on and the deeper it gets, the more mad we are, the more prone to dreadful fears and fantasies. In the morning, not when we first wake up but gradually, things begin to look unlike what they looked like at eleven, at midnight.”

“Mark Twain had written somewhere: We are all mad at night.”

“I think life's too long to do anything that we know is wrong before we begin.”

“Lewis would have agreed with Oscar Wilde that our past is what we are. We cannot rid ourselves of it.”

“Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so.”

“Time, the best of all doctors, though it kills you in the end, had done more than therapy could.”