There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.