You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good..

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches..

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies..

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is….

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys..

I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck wil….

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they ne….

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you ….

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now..

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by….

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socr….

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life..

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite..

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head..

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they….

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces toget….

Every day is Christmas Day to a dog..

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And ….

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number thre….

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I w….