I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

Write what you love and love what you write.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.