“They deserved nothing less than the truth--a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose.”

“If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?”

“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.”

“In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy.”

“Any man who’s got a big hoard has the right to be first in line, the way I see it. He’s earned it see. Them that have got nothing to their name, well, they don’t deserve nothing, do they?”

“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”