I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Imagine a world without people.
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.
I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning.
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is best calorie. I believe in kissing. kissing a see.
I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
It is strange that anyone should dislike cats.
“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
Everybody is not a victim.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.
“To rely on rustics and not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.”