If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.