Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.