If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.