"Writing is busy idleness...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Our virtues and view spring from one root.”

“Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”

“He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.”

“For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'”

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

“I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.”

“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.”

“Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.”

“All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.”