You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

Without the library, you have no civilization.