Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Put your converted time into something productive

To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.

After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.

It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?