And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

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

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

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.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.