I let my summer days pass idly on.
To camp is a mode of seduction. . . Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
Some men are more perfect than others.
In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means. " So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.