There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.