Up here it seems we have only the stars, but even they seem small in the midst of that terrifying night sky...I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Nostalgia dies in the pit of my throat from lack of exercise and I buried the word six feet under the pronunciation of hopeful tomorrows.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

What we have to be is what we are.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.