“A man without words is a man without thought.”

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

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.

How wonderful our life is. One has only to realize this and surround yourself with the right people.

Being present in the life of someone you love is the best gift you can offer.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

She wished she never knew him, but how would she learn the lesson if it wasn’t because of his filth.

Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take the time out to enjoy the beauty in life.

Loneliness passes through whoever makes the right decisions in life.

Self-respect is the most vital factor in life.

Everything is possible, except perfection.