A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Read Summary
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. Read Summary
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. Read Summary
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. Read Summary
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. Read Summary
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. Read Summary
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. Read Summary
No one wants advice - only corroboration. Read Summary
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. Read Summary
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. Read Summary
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. Read Summary
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. Read Summary
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. Read Summary
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. Read Summary
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. Read Summary
Time is the only critic without ambition. Read Summary
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. Read Summary
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. Read Summary
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. Read Summary
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. Read Summary