What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

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

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.