The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.
You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure