Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.