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.

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.

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

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!

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

You can be prosecuted if you tell the truth about Islam.