Do what you love, don't do anything else.

I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.