New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.