I don't believe in colleges and universities.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

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

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Write. Don't think. Relax.