I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

If Chase's wings are broken, then mine are shattered.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that "You know what? Push for gun control, but not now."

A good digestion turneth all to health.

All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.