Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.

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

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

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

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors.