“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
“Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”
“One mustn't ask apples of an elm tree.”
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“Everything one invents is true; poetry is as precise as geometry.”
“The man is nothing, the work — all.”
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
“Exuberance is better than taste.”
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
“Life was beginning over again with the summer.”
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
“And miles to go before I sleep.”