I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

The power of an attitude is amazing