It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
