Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

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.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.