Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord$$$ there were a lot of lovely books once$$$ before we let them go.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love$$$ and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love$$$ something to live for.

It was a pleasure to burn.

After all$$$ the function of a vacation is regenerative$$$ not luxurious. It's to restore our equipment so that we can live our ordinary lives better.

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose$$$ you run any risk you want.

I have good news and bad news. The good news is there is life (of a kind) after this life. The bad news is that Jean-Claude Villeneuve is a necrophiliac.

Great physicists$$$ great mathematicians$$$ great chemists$$$ and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark.