When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

May you find the grace of triumph in any situation.

If you can cull an animal, or kill a human, and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?

Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

God take care of him, because he's my past and my future