Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

The best writing is rewriting.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

Use the smallest word that does the job.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.