A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.
Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.
I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.
I live for myself and answer to nobody
I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.