(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.