A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

A book is a loaded gun.

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.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

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

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.