"Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving."

"It was terrible when Gilles died. I cried that day and the next one too, even though I had to race... ...an…"

"I am not sorry for having wrought in common, crude material so much; that is the right American stuff; and …"

"Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work."

"The uncomfortable moments in a person's life make great stories down the road."

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — …"

"While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of…"