You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.