Children set off each day without a worry in the world. Everything is near at hand; the worst material conditions are fine. The woods are white or black, one will never sleep.
I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college.
Life — and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison — is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
