Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

All great and precious things are lonely.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.