But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

The omelette tasted like flannel.

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about.

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman, nor even of a statue, but that of the Platonic absolute of which all beauty is but a shadow in a cave, cast by the Fire beyond fire.

This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

For we love liberty just as we love peace.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.

The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.