I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.