Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, "Let's start the year off together," and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.