Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

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

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.