Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.