A word after a word after a word is power.

If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.