1. "A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others."
2. “Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.” ‘
3. “Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.”
4. “If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.”
5. “I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.”
6. “In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.”
7. “I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, tomatter: to count, to stand for something, to have made somedifference that you lived at all.
8. "In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed."
9. “Where there is too much, something is missing.”
10. “Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.”
11. “You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them--no matter how old or impressive they may be--as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much--we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
