Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of …

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

My 'act' has ended by becoming an integral part of my nature, I told myself. It's no longer an act. My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has …

Man is only a disguise, a liar, a hypocrite, both to himself and to others. (377)

This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life - wait a second - you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what w…