I don't believe in colleges and universities.
I don't control my writing - it controls me.
Burroughs is crap. Crap.
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.
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.
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
The Internet is a big distraction.
I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
We're all dreamers.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
Electronic books are junk.
My goal is to entertain myself and others.
I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
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.