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

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

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.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.