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

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.