“Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.”
“There are people who feel deeply but are somehow beaten down. Their buffoonery is something like a spiteful irony against those to whom they dare not speak the truth directly because of a long-standing, humiliating timidity before them. Believe me, Krasotkin, such buffoonery is sometimes extremely tragic.”
“Courage is not the lack of fear, it is acting in spite of it”
“You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.”
“It's easy to become married. Millions of people do it every year. If you want to pressure me to become something, hey, why not pick something a little more challenging—like an astrophysicist.”