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.

I don't know anything anymore

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.