I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.