When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.