The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

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

I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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