Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.