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.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.