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

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

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.