What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

I'd rather change my dreams than live knowing four innocent men were in prison or hanged for a crime they didn't commit.

Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.