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

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.