The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.