I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

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.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

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

Everything is generated through your own will power.