Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

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