I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.

He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears.

I know what you're gonna think, what you're gonna ask. Percy Jackson, why are you hanging from a Times Square billboard without your pants on, about to fall to your death?

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.