Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

I just really want to be able to walk into a karaoke bar when I'm like 50 years old, do my own song, and then walk out. I think that would be really fun.

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.