The Ratio Of Literacy To Illiteracy Is

You Can't Think On Purpose About Somebody Or Something. Either You Think About Them Naturally Or You Don't Think At All.

...my Boredom Might Be Described As A Malady Affecting External Objects And Consisting Of A Withering Process; An Almost Instantaneous Loss Of Vitality--just As Though One Saw A Flower Change In A Few Seconds From A Bud To Decay And Dust.

Our Ideals, Laws And Customs Should Be Based On The Proposition That Each Generation In Turn Becomes The Custodian Rather Than The Absolute Owner Of Our Resources - And Each Generation Has The Obligation To Pass This Inheritance On In The Future.

This Thought Strengthened In Me My Belief That All Men, Without Exception, Deserve To Be Pitied, If Only Because They Are Alive.

Yes, One Uses What One Knows, But Autobiography Means Something Else. I Should Never Be Able To Write A Real Autobiography; I Always End By Falsifying And Fictionalizing—i’m A Liar, In Fact. That Means I’m A Novelist, After All. I Write About What I Know.