I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There’s nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.
Show me the man who isn’t interested in discussing himself.
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.
A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.
A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.
But a man needs company.
Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.
I’m back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn’t demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.
The human is the only guilty animal.
What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.
I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.
It don’t cost money to ask.
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
If you are in love-that’s a good thing-that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone.
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.