Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. read more

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always read more

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a read more

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the read more

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.