Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger…

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.”

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“It is possible to insult Americans?” “They are automatically insulted and enraged,” said the young composer. “They form splenetic organizations by the…

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception.…

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a…

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.”

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken…

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Is it really so important to be different?

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.”

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has…

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark