Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.