“The purpose of life is not to be happybut to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

“Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”

“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be under...”

“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”

“Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”