You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.