I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.