Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.