A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.