Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding