But desperate people find courage.
Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
Life is a state of mind.
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.
It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 [racecar] driver.
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.