Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.