If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!