But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it..

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sk….

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to….

The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the mot….

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere..

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birt….

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into th….

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers co….

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and ….

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..

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else..

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed ….

This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But t….

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him..

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers..

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedul….

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it..

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are..

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't..

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We mu….