They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

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

Words began fights and words ended them.

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.