What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

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.

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

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 was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

[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.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.