There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

If you want it, work for it.

Science is organized knowledge.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Moving rocks today strengthens you for moving mountains tomorrow.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.

If Trump is going to govern in a fascist way, then we need to make America ungovernable.