The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

My business is to prevent the future.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.