“SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE.”

“Let's not push it under the rug, or push it to the sidebecause, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. Youknow, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet,it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keepcoming up.”

“If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.”

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

“By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.”

“It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by the bulls in Pamplona. It's something else to go home and visit with the folks in Reed's drugstore on the square and actually listen to them. The reason you can't go home again is not because the down-home folks are mad at you--they're not, don't flatter yourself, they couldn't care less--but because once you're in orbit and you return to Reed's drugstore on the square, you can stand no more than fifteen minutes of the conversation before you head for the woods, head for the liquor store, or head back to Martha's Vineyard, where at least you can put a tolerable and saving distance between you and home. Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.”

“the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death”