Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.

Marriage is a duet or duel.

Homesickness for the gutter.

Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

Country is the pace where your friends are.

There is even rhythm in being empty.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.