I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.