I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put….

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible..

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future..

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new fr….

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people ki….

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not….

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot..

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best..

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off..

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you li….

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon..

Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks C….

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in boo….

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top..

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour..

All education is self-discovery..

Those who don't build must burn..

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at yo….

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test thi….

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, a….

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it..