A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

“God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to h…”

“If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good rea…”

“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characte…”

“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered th…”