The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

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

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

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.

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.