I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?