The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

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

When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.