I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Decadence is wonderful.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I write novels and other things.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

Use your imagination, " I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, ' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh d—''And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited.

I assume I don't need an introduction.

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.