I become drunk as circumstances dictate..

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow..

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic..

I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account….

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought..

I give dignity second place to expedience..

How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes ar….

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters..

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe..

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebutta….

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equi….

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment..

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write..

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory..

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequen….

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me..

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things..

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want a….

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he rea….

I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of th….

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, an….