There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.