If you want to do something... get up and actually do it!

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

I am a clown...and I collect moments.

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.

I need very little reality.

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life, ” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

Whatever you do well in the darkness tells more about who you are than what you do best in light. Watch out!

To find the nectar of life, let me get lost in the mysteries and beauties of the imagination.

Narsh!

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

It's not what happens in life, it's how you react to what happens in life.