“It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.”

“Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”

“Spent half of my life doing the wrong things, the wrong way. Plan to spent the rest half doing again the same wrong things, but the right way.”

“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”

“For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.”

“In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.”