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.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Do what you love, don't do anything else.

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.