And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world.

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?