Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.