Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces o….

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe….

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam..

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..

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode..

Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbpr….

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….

God, here and there, makes madness a calling..

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,….

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the ripplin….

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them..

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we do….

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world..

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451..

Creativity is a continual surprise..

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..

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..

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 ….

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

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations..