It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.