“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

All great and precious things are lonely.

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

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

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

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

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

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

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

We fucked a flame into being.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.