There is more than one way to burn a book.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

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.

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.