I used to make the mistake of assuming people were inherently smart.

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

No one noticed that I had changed- that I had given up sleep entirely, that I was spending all my time reading, that my mind was someplace a hundred years - and hundreds of miles - from reality.

Hate does more to you than you could ever do to that which you hate.

Reality is a challenge.

Girls who are most quiet tend to have more to say while the most noisy must be the loneliest in reality.