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

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Once you label me you negate me.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

An idea is salvation by imagination

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.