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.

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.