Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?

I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline. She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then. Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not. I'll reserve my judgment until then.

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.