The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

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.

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.