What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

If you want to do things, do things.

I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.