It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

Fear is the brother of hate.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.