“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.”

“I can no longer take war or promotion or big income or a large house seriously. I reject empire and Vietnam and placing a man on the moon. I deny time payments and looking like the girl next door and church weddings and a great deal more. If you want to blame such rejection on grass, you can do so. I charge it to awakening.”

“The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.”

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”

“Writers turn dreams into print.”

“Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don’t need you.”

“When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.”