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.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Hope is a slow business.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.... Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies.