“I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.”

“Keriangan adalah ucapan terima kasih kita kepada Tuhan.”

“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”

“I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye." Derrick”

“I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.”

“I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.”

“I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.”