And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others.

Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

I'm a hopeless romantic.

Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.