I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.
He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.
For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
It's getting darker and darker out there. We need to shine brighter and brighter.
A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.
Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure, Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned, Orders, by the degrees of complication of that structure, Families, by their form, as far as determined by structure, Genera, by the details of the execution in special parts, and Species, by the relations of individuals to one another and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation, etc.