Fancy and Fantasy rule the mind of man. You desire one thing in the morning, at noon you change over to something else. That desire will not persist until evening. If your desire is fulfilled you praise God and parade your devotion. But if it does not prevail you throw God overboard and parade your disbelief!

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Some look at things that are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys

The more you like yourself the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique.

Those who live are those who fight.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists and we will frankly print just about any wacky thing they tell us especially if it involves outer space.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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