"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."

"Wisdom principle 42 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 51."

"I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next."

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."

"I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things."