And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.