Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

What we need is endless courage.

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.