I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.