You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.