“...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.”

“To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.”

“To the child, the savage, and the Wall Street operator everything seems possible, hence their credulity.”

“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”

“To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.”

“The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.”

“To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.”