Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.