“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man.”
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
“She was very clever. She told the best lie of all – the truth.”
“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie.”
“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 to the world.”
“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
“You see, there’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.”
“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens to you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”
“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”
“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes it’ll on’y be one.”
