I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.
The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.