You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

Evil has only the power we give it.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?