If I can make you angry... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game

Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

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

Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do