There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

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.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.

You can’t hide secrets from the future with math.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.