"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."

"For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence."

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way."

"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."

"Writing well mean never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'"

"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."

"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."

"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything."

"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."