In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

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

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.