The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.