Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.