If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

What do you want?""You." His voice was soft, low. His eyes were intense and watchful.

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.

I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.