Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

Support your partner in their interests. You never know when batting practice, kung fu movie moves, or even a poker night might come in handy during a zombie infestation.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

Just look at the way he hangs in mid air!

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.