Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

Peace and love, that's what we all need.

There are no ugly women only lazy ones.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

The best part was seeing fans and making new ones. I loved going to new places. I really had the time of my life out there.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

I saw Gabriel, like a maiden, or like the moon amongst the stars. His hair was like a woman's, falling in long tresses...He is the most beautiful of Angels.