It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
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.
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
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.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
