Quotes by : John Williams

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were....

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are....

He tried to shape in his mind what he had to say to McDonald. It was a feeling; it was an urge that he....

Sometimes Edith came into the room and sat on the bed beside him and they talked. They talked of trivial....

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question....

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through....

It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in....

I am a man, and as foolish and weak as most men; if I have had an advantage over my fellows, it is that....

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been....