I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.