But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they cou...
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.
And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, Use it well, use it wisely.
And now the group was welded to one thing, one unit, so that in the dark the eyes of the people were inward, and their minds played in other times, and their sadness was like rest, like sleep.
And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity.
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethi...
Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough
You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by t...
You can only fight Fate so far, and when you give in to it you're very strong; because all of your force flows in one direction.
Women can change better’n a man, Ma said soothingly. Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a farm and l...
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.
Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we...
We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.
They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way, for they never sounded the same repeated in their own kitchens.
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.
There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the...
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.