There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I am not now That which I have been.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.