You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.