I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.