You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were..

Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someo….

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers..

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible de….

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudd….

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ….

We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of ….

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire ….

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you..

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those ….

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. B….

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared re….

People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them ….

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it..

I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious..

We are anthill men upon an anthill world..

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads..

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now ..

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community..

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life..

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it..