The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

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.

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.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.

Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.