"Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century."

“What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?”

Source : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)”

“Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.”

“To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle. Yet this is what Christmas says - and we take refuge from our bewilderment not in explanation but in adoration.”

“Splendid couple - slept with both of them.”

“Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.”

“They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.”

Source : 'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

“The true athlete should have character, not be a character”