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

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

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

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

But no man's a hero to himself.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.