Facts are not interesting to me.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.