Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

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.

Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever.

In my father’s scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.