...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.

You know what I could use? A thrill.

I love marriage.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

You have to look closely To see that it is pretty You have to look long To see that it is lovable You are the same

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.