Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.