Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.