If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

I'm certainly not fearful.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.