If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
Your mind’s always juggling, isn’t it?-mirrors, torches, plates.
Life is about trying things to see if they work.
You don’t have to worry about the future, you don’t worry about the past – you just explode.
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.
Fire the doubters out of your life.
Good to evil seems evil.
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.
I don’t write science fiction. I’ve only done one science fiction book and that’s Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.
You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.
How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.