The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.