The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.