If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.