Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.