Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.