Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

A foreclosure does not define you financially.

You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.

thank god for pure natural strength

Is it possible to be totally partial?

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.