Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.

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.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

A book is a loaded gun.

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.