Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
Bankruptcy is better than being nothing in a country where everyone is trying to be noticed.
Citation serves as a way to acknowledge our debt to those who came before... those who helped us find our way when the way was obscured because we deviated from the paths we were told to follow.
Conviction is not easily reversed — We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them!
A Conviction is suspect to the degree that it is firm, for it indicates a life unmoved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
11 concepts in this pillow book.