Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

Those women like to see their tongues dance.