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

So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

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

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

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

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.