How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.