If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.