If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.