Occupation: Author Birth: September 30, 1924 Death: August 25, 1984
A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison..
He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone..
I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them ….
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exq….
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet..
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky,….
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past..
Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies..
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say..
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year..
All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though so….
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act..
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?.
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing..
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot..
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down ou….
If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?.
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. Y….
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven..
The brain may take advice, but not the heart..
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor..