It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid..

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else..

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn..

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick….

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points..

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've ….

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think ….

It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and n….

For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? T….

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century..

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his..

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college..

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not t….

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else ….

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves..

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it..

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to lea….

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the ….

I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I….

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive..