I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s th….

Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a….

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important,….

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream..

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all ….

There is only one type of story in the world-your story..

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!.

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glas….

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again..

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake..

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft..

Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income..

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly..

All isn't well with the world..

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tin….

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars..

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and w….

Digression is the soul of wit..

They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always ….

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in….

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing..