A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.