You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.