Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.