The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.