You know, Daddy said, it’s some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it’s others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He’s going to be into everything!
If you live today, you breath in nihilism … it’s the gas you breathe. If I hadn’t had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place… Nothing outside you can give you any place… In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.