After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.