A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

No one wants advice-only corroboration.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard-covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five-cent books are different.

A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

But a man needs company.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.