I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

My work has always been the product of my time.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.