We should follow whatever seems probable， and avoid whatever seems improbable.

Heredity is nothing, environment is everything.

"To write is to give oneself a chance to live many lives."

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.