I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

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.

When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.