The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.

I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Sometimes there are no answers.

Stupid is a boundless concept.

Find peace in where and what you are.

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.