One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

The opinions of others are their perceptions. Define your life!

Color is powerful. It is almost physiologically impossible to be in a bad mood when you're wearing bright red pants.

Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

Evil man make me kill you.

People always describe my successes in life. My successes in life tend to be personal, not career.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.