Writer

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Pengetahuan baru adalah komoditas paling berharga di bumi. Semakin banyak kebenaran yang harus kita kerjakan, semakin kaya kita.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Ini hari Minggu, dan pertanyaannya muncul, apa yang akan saya mulai besok?

Teror yang sebenarnya adalah bangun pada pagi hari dan menemukan bahwa sekolah menengah Anda memimpin sebuah negara.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

Sains adalah sihir yang berhasil.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.