I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

An angel; or, if not, An earthly paragon.