When he read his father’s books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day.
After a while,” said Cyrus, “you’ll think no thought the others do not think. You’ll know no word the others can’t say. And you’ll do things because the others do them. You’ll feel the danger in any difference whatever – a danger to the whole crowd.
He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole life had any talent for making money.
He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.
I ain’t never done nothin’ that wasn’t part sin.
I believe one thing powerfully- that the only creative thing our species has is the individual, lonely mind... The group ungoverned by individual thinking is a horrible destructive principle.
I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium.
Oh, but strawberries will never taste so good again and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!
Fella can get so he misses the noise of a saw mill.
It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.
And, oh, my God, it’s over.
S-l-o-w-ness – it gave meaning to everything. It made everything royal.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn’t important enough to me to be an obsession.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create – this is man.
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.