You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

I've only been an asshole to assholes!

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.