There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel..

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living..

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter..

Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They d….

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks….

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun..

Do what you love, don't do anything else..

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read..

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do sho….

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers..

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in….

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well ….

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it..

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you c….

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address..

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord..

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you….

The terrible tyranny of the majority..

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love..

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything..