Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.