We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense.
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.
What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.
To love beauty is to see light.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.