But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

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.

You can't succeed in any endeavor if your motive is solely selfish- feeding your ego, seeking recognition, fame, etc. Find a lasting motivation...

Each new frienship begins with the first word.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

It's easier to be authentic if you don't say you are authentic.

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.