In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'

When there's a war, people get married.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

... if you have nothing, you are free to choose among dreams and fantasies.