Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and. . . the third I can't remember.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities
I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.
We've got to get in to get out.
We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.