If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

... vulgarity has no nation.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

When the guns roar, the arts die.