I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

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.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!