Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

A book is a loaded gun.