Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness..

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe.

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 science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, ….

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused th….

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all..

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones..

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 ….

I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form….

Life should be touched, not strangled..

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe..

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put as….

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down..

Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again..

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

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them..

Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you ma….

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes….

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored..

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, meas….

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them..