I fear those big words which make us so unhappy....

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.