The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt