You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.