Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.