In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Not all questions can be answered.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

I've always been around dudes and sports.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.