Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

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.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.