Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.