1. “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.”
2. "A man may say, 'From now on I'm going to speak the truth.' But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking."
3. “Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”
4. “In the East the ordeal is one of privation, in the West the one of choice.”
5. “On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay about the doorways of butcher shops and fruit stores. And the great, great crowd, the inexhaustible current of millions of every race and kind pouring out, pressing round, of every age, of every genius, possessors of every human secret, antique and future, in every face the refinement of one particular motive or essence -- I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally. The sidewalks were wider than any causeway; the street itself was immense, and it quaked and gleamed and it seemed ... to throb at the last limit of endurance.”
6. ”People are only as good as what they love.”
7. “There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
