The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

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

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

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