Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.