If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.