Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
Through fasting. . . I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.
A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out. '
Oddly enough, I suppose, I don't give much thought to my style, and I don't attempt to be consistent - except within a story. You ask if I struggled to find my style. It seems to me that style - in other words, a way of thinking and doing things - is innate. You can try to will it to be different, but it's like a signature - you can't change its fundamental nature.