Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity

I have three closets in my bedroom.