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?

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

Don't talk about it; write.

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.