What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.