He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.

I apply for a new job twice a week, every week. I am applying for the position of millionaire but so far my numbers haven't come up.

I grow up relying upon on my own shoulders even from the moment they were too weak to hold me back, but I knew it is the only to become a tough guy.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition