Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.