See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.