Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

I keep people alive every day, and right now, the person I’m trying to keep alive is you. Will you let me?

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

My face is on bubblegum wrappers now!

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.