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.

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.

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

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.