In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.