I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.