It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.