You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.

I think a person can learn. Basically, I think anything is possible.

There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.

For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!