Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

Say what you have to say, and then stop.

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

War is what happens when language fails.

With determined spirit you can overpower any difficulty.

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

Last memory of my mother is her being dragged away

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.