I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.