Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough.

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.

My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.

Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen if fascism went unchallenged.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.