My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.