Untold words

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”

I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.

“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”

“In writing, even if my distortions and deformations be deliberate, they are not necessarily less near to the truth of things. One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. The truth is in no way disturbed by the violent perturbations of the spirit.”

“I don’t care if I am in a state of contradiction; I don’t want to be a philosophical genius. I don’t even want to be a genius at all, for I have enough trouble just being a man.”