If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.