I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.