I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

No person ever died that had a family.