Without the library, you have no civilization.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

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.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.