Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.Life Courage
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.Humor Individuality Writing
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.Writing
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.Truth Ignorance People
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.Learning Life
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.Writing
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.Religion Belief Thinking Idea
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.Kindness Heart Friendship
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.Humor Short
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore. 
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. 
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. 
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. 
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. 
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. 
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. 
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. 
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. 
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
It was a pleasure to burn.
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.