The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.

Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.