Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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.

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.

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.

People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.