No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments.

There is no pain and there are no sorrows. They no longer have permission to live in my today or my tomorrow.

They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.