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

But no man's a hero to himself.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

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.