My father was often angry when I was most like him.

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

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.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

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.