Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

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.

Many of us have no appetite for spiritual things because we are absorbed in the sinful pleasures of this world. We have been eating too many of the devil’s delicacies.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler

I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.

I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.