When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

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.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.