The Starving Poet Business Is No Good

I Believe That Before Anything Else I'm A Human Being -- Just As Much As You Are... Or At Any Rate I Shall Try To Become One. I Know Quite Well That Most People Would Agree With You, Torvald, And That You Have Warrant For It In Books; But I Can't Be Satisfied Any Longer With What Most People Say, And With What's In Books. I Must Think Things Out For Myself And Try To Understand Them.

It Is No Use Lying To One's Self.

Oh Yes, Right—right. What Is The Use Of Having Right On Your Side If You Have Not Got Might?

There Is Always A Risk In Being Alive, And If You Are More Alive, There Is More Risk.

Happiness Is Above All Things The Calm, Glad Certainty Of Innocence.