Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

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?

A good person always find the goodness in a bad person.

Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'Squeezing Nat’s knee again, I reply, 'She’s teachin’ me how.

Gratitude isn’t innate. It’s a habit that has to be learned through practice.

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

March Madnesss...the only place where you hear 'Kansas is advancing.'

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

Friends are proved by adversity.

It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.