The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.