The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.

No one dies halfway through the last act. – Heinrich Ibsen

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.