Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.