Strange how potent cheap music is.

It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.

Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallowing in it. It’s still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We’ve invented a few things that make noises, but we haven’t invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions.

I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.