I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.