How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

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

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.

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.