Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want