There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

War is what happens when language fails.

Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.