I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

I'm a promoter of masturbation. Don't sleep around...learn yourself first! Guys do it, but girls don't. They should.

The whole goal with this thing [Ultra Natural] from the start was to really let rider's style define them and their line choice.

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.