When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.