I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

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.