My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?'' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.