We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

I didn't think; I experimented.