Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.