In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate