Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.