I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

We write to make sense of it all.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.