“For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.”

“For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or-to put the thing less cynically-we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice.”

“I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”

“i never knew anyone so relentless to his ancestors - you make up for your soapiness toward the living”

“We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something. ”

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads.Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.”