A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

cute," she announced. "and oh,baby doll,you do give off a powerful vide,don't you? makes me want to touch you." with your teeth,id bet.i say to myself

Councell breakes not the head.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.