“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's. ”

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

“There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell.”

“I couldn't bring this sorrow home. Couldn't tell my wife. Wouldn't tell my children. As my friend Edward Dee says, we live in the worst twenty minutes of someone else's life. So I leave it behind . . . where it happened . . . where it belongs . . . not in my house.”

“My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.”

“If I pretended to be "normal" and behaved just like everybody else, if I masked my emotions and smiled a lot, even if I felt disconsolate, nobody would be able to tell”