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

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

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.