The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.

The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.