Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.