I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.