To be alive at all is to have scars.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

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

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

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.