Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

Profit is the celebration of service.

People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

I didn't want to lose the human scale.

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.