People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.
I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Oh, I never look under the hood.
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
A canter is the cure for all evil.
Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.