I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

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.

Living isa thing you donow or never --which do you?

The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world, it's like a line painted on the sidewalk.

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

Aspirin will not bring dead hookers back to life.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.

Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.