"... there is must arise a man who will give new values to things, give us new truths, a new attirude to life, or else we shall be crumbling nothingness in a few years, a country in ruin."

"i always went my own road and on my own legs where i had a mind to go. i wouldnot have believed it of myself; [...] i felt somehow i must get there by hook or by crook."

"by heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter."

"i only want sympathy, do you see: i want somebody i can talk to sympathetically. that eases the strain. and there is nobody to to sympathetically. that's the curious thing. there is nobody. there's [only this person] but then he isn't sympathetic, he wants to dictate. and that is no use whatsoever."