At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now “God gave it to me!” Don’t you think you are too stupid?

This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.