any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.