A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.