We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.