“Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!”
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
“This is so American, man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.”
“... he is a self-made man who has come to worship his creator.”
“The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.”