You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure. And the wedding was a radiant event and I enjoyed it. I was afraid I'd cry. I'm given to crying at odd times, and I was very much afraid of the emotionalism of that moment, but I didn't even come close to crying.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.