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

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

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone..

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage..

The important thing is to be in love with something..

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you..

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future..

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young..

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reas….

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him..

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

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 ….

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again..

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 ….

Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a respon….

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How coul….

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

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

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk a….

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….

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 ….