To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.