The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

You unlock the door with the key of imagination.

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.