We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

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.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Socialism never took root in America.

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.