A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.