it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

The beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful, the cold, the sexy and especially those that are from cinema material, shadow and light.

There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.