The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.