Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

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.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.