The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.