Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.