When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

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

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.