Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

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

Try to be better than yourself.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.