John Holmes quotes:

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.