Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.