We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

It isn’t what you don’t know that’s the problem. It is what you’re unwilling to ask.

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.