There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.