I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.