Things Start Out As Hopes And End

Childhood Is Less Clear To Me Than To Many People: When It Ended I Turned My Face Away From It For No Reason That I Know About, Certainly Without The Usual Reason Of Unhappy Memories. For Many Years That Worried Me, But Then I Discovered That The Tales Of Former Children Are Seldom To Be Trusted. Some People Supply Too Many Past Victories Or Pleasures With Which To Comfort Themselves, And Other People Cling To Pains, Real And Imagined, To Excuse What They Have Become.

Writers Talk Too Much.

Was It Always My Nature To Take A Bad Time And Block Out The Good Times, Until Any Success Became An Accident And Failure Seemed The Only Truth?

Lonely People, In Talking To Each Other Can Make Each Other Lonelier.

History Is Made By Masses Of People. One Man, Or Ten Men, Don't Start The Earthquakes And Don't Stop Them Either. Only Hero Worshipers And Ignorant Historians Think They Do.