Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

But no man's a hero to himself.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.