And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Not all questions can be answered.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?

I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.

A compromise is done willingly and out of love. You don't go away thinking, "I betrayed myself."

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.