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

There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.