You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

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