Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority