Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.