All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.

All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.