I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

False hope is better than no hope at all.

Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy

You have more power over your mind than you realize. The time to strengthen it is now.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Sometimes music helps. If I feel that it's bogus, I'll literally just call myself out on camera and say that it's dishonest. You do whatever it takes.