Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.