“The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a ...” — Charles Horton Cooley Quote

“The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.”

“Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.”

“The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.”

“As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'”

“They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.”

“Touring can be quite a dull life.”