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

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

A jug fills drop by drop.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

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

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.