They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

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

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.