I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.