The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

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

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.