There is more than one way to burn a book..

I have fun with ideas; I play with them..

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing..

Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? Wh….

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversa….

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination shoul….

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me..

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you afte….

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and w….

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children..

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, kn….

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure..

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in a….

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all..

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're….

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do..

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you..

You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the work….

They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always ….

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon..