Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Maybe they were terrorists!
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.