My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

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.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."