I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.