I'm back from my adventures with Charley. Perhaps I'll write a book about them. For now, I'll share some thoughts with you, dear followers.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

You... are rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

@pcon9x2 "No more quotes?" I have returned, my friend. Many quotes to come.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

Gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.

You're going to pass something down. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Failure is a state of mind. ...Like one of those sand traps... You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

A man without words is a man without thought.

Once he has accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe.

John Steinbeck What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable!

To finish is a sadness to a writer. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.