The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

But no man's a hero to himself.

My job is to help you fall in love.

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 are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.