When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

To say more, is to say less.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyes water.