You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars...
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf ’cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
You know, it’s weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you’ve never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.
There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.
I don’t think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.
In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don’t think there’s a real person left in the place.
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.
It’s not the fish you catch, it’s the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.
Behind the curtain’s mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.
Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That’s how well they go together.
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.
You can’t make me love you.
Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn’t big enough, you print the legend.
The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.
Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.
First rule of magic: Don’t let anyone know your real name. Names have power.
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.