Don’t just manage

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand

My sincere desire is to write in a style that is simple enough for a child to understand, yet powerful enough to change lives.

Successful minds work like a gimlet to a single point.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

Death is just infinity closing in.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the consequences to refuse to comply with a greatly unjust law.