Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.