Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.