All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.