I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.