There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

People don't want other people to be people.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

No man can walk out from his own story.

God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

I'm going to admit when I'm clueless, and I'm going to ask people for help when I don't know the answer to something.

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.