It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

A writer's work is to witness things.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days

To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.