A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.