“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.”

“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.”

“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.”

“My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.”

“There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.”

“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”

“Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor hate, but to enjoy. And this joy of living, because it is unnaturally acquired, is a poison which eventually vitiates the whole world. Whatever is created beyond the normal limits of human suffering, acts as a boomerang and brings about destruction.”