We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

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

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.