I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Love is easy, and I love writing.

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.