We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.