not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

great books are the ones we need

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!

I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

People give up the earth for beauty.

Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

I wore the gold for some reasons. One, as a Christian.When Jesus was born wise men bring him gold.No wise man brought bling. Bling is not in The Bible.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.