A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.