Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Never confuse movement with action.
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
All thinking men are atheists
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Religion is the opium of the poor.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
There’s only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
