I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.