I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I'm running with myself

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.