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

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the areas of timorousness were fairly laid out. Race relations. Sex. Politics. There was a whole conglomeration of taboo themes. And even to date, though television has become a much freer medium, it's still far less free, far less creatively untrammeled than are the movies. They're infinitely more adult in that respect.