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

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

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

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.