A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead