Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

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