Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Do what you love, don't do anything else.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

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.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.