I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

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.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?