For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

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

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.