How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.