I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.