When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.

Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

Paradise is for those who make paradise.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.