"I feel as if my life had..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”

“Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.”

“Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?”

“At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!”

“By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.”

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”

“The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.”