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

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.

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.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.