... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.

I am your number one fan.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.

He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.

He felt gladness roar through his soul.

A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.

... when editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.

She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

The best investment shall be to find your soul.

oh what can i do life is beautiful but you don't have a clue.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.