I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. - William Somerset Maugham

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

The isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

Why do you read then?'

Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I've got out of the book all that's any use to me and I can't get anything more if I read it a dozen times. ...