I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

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.

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.