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" I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. "

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" Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive. "

" Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. "

" When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed. "

" People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. "

" The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. "

" I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. "

" I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it. "

" I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins. "

" Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. "

" Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. "

" I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. "

" If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. "

" What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. "

" Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. "

" All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. "

" I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station. "

" If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. "

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "

" Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. "

" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "

" It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day. "

" My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. "

" I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. "

" I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. "

" Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. "

" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "

" Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. "

" About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. "

" I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this. "

" Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. "