The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.