“It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.”

“Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.”

“Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.”

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”

“People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.”

“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”

“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”