“Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at.”
“It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.”
“If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.”
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”
“If it's got a beard or a battery, you're going to have trouble with it.”
“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.”