I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Once you label me you negate me.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.