Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
A simple life is its own reward.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.
I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.