This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky..

Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption..

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself..

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition..

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning o….

It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: wh….

It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You s….

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't..

I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here a….

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me..

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is..

I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you ….

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturba….

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that f….

The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvati….

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense..

As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many people that it h….

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordi….

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this sho….

God doesn't believe in the easy way..