What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.