Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.