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• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
  -- Cyril Connolly...
• Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. -- Cyril Connolly
• The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
  -- Cyril Connolly...
• When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen.
  There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. Patrick Overto...
• Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. -- Cyril Connolly
• Youth is a period of missed opportunities. -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
• There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answe
  Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly?...
• Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite.
  Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river....