I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.