Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

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.

Everyone's afraid, but I'm not. Because I loved your father my whole life. I still do.

...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.