“I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”
“He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.”
“You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success.”
“But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”
“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”
“And if you ruin it I own your soul.”