Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Literature is my Utopia

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

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.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.