Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!