While we live, let us live.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.