Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

I do want love. Genuine love.

Loser loser, double loser, whatever, as if, get the picture. DUH!

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.