"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

"Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God."

"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."

"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win."

"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed."

"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it."

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

"The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them."

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two."

"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything."

"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."