What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

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