This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.