My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.