Americans want to go to heaven without dying.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

We are all Clapping Monkeys, but while some of us smile, others look around to see if anyone has noticed.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

Don't be anything you don't want to be, always be yourself.

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

I am a novelist at heart.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.