The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, -Wait and hope.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

Have faith in your imaginel act.