If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Those who don't build must burn.

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

The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.