“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”

“Everyone has a little book in them, and in most cases, that is where it should stay.”

“There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books.I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is.I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.”

“Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”

“Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.”