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

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

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.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

No one wants advice, only collaboration.

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?