A good beginning makes a good end.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

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

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!