That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!