The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

“The beginning is always today.”

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.