Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Writing is a communication.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

True happiness springs from moderation.

[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.