A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

The sacred lamp, shall never cease to burn to give light.

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

Owl, " said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest--and when I say thinking I mean thinking--you and I must do it.

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.