Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
The real fear isn’t rejection, but that there won’t be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.
We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.
Libraries are the center of our lives. There’s no use going to a university if you don’t live at the library.
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.
Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
I don’t understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
I’m trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.
The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.
In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.