There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.