The past is no farther away than your pillow.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Humans are almost always lonely.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

The successful writer listens to himself.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.