You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

It isn't as important to feel great about all the things we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.

You are the greatest undiscovered adventure of your lifetime.

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

Started from the chair hop now we here.

I don't want terror in America.

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!

You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.