It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.