The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Beware the autumn people