Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

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.