Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

One faces the future with one's past.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.