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

Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

All of my writing is God-given.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.