God bless the Reference Librarians

If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?" The Glass Rainbow, p. 138

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.