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

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.