We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.