The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

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