"Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken societies and their obsessive technologies to other …"

"The one thing that makes it possible to get through life is to laugh. If you don't laugh, you're dead."

"The only thing worse than a bad book is a good book that you can't read."

"Freedom is a heavy load, a beautiful and terrible thing."

"I hate to be told by some guy in a suit that I shouldn't be writing about this or that because it's not 'marketable.'"