The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

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.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

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.

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