I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.