"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."