Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

No one messes me around, I don't give second chances and I never waste tears over people who aren't worth it. I save them for the people who are.

Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.