I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.