There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.