"I don't do research. I never have...." - Quote by Ray Bradbury

“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.”

“Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.”

“I got started as an actor when I was 12.”

“Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.”

“I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.”

“If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”

“Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.”

“There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.”

“Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.”