Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers!

Art cannot save anybody from anything.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

The maimings of love are endlessly funny.

He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at the wall, the window blind, and the TV screen.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

Regardless of my age, such a trivial thing isn’t important, it was upon that decision which my life hung.

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.