There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

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