All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease."

"Truth is rarely pure, and never simple."

"And yet, and yet,
These Christs that die upon the barricades,
God knows it I am with them, in some ways."

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.