Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.