If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.