Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.