Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

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.

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!