One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence. - Robertson Davies

I have been very miserable since - miserable not for an hour but for months on end - but I can still feel that hour's misery in its perfect desolation, if I am fool enough to call it up in my mind.

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.