You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.

How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

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

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.