Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.