I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.

For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.