Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.