The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

Literature is my Utopia

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.