I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.