Love is easy, and I love writing.

There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.