"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"...and in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy?"

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none."

"I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up."

"The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."

"Union gives strength."

"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

"While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?"