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" Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me. "

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" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. "

" We're all dreamers. "

" I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys. "

" I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people. "

" If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself. "

" Facts are not interesting to me. "

" You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. "

" I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. "

" Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. "

" I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. "

" A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. "

" When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. "

" When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. "

" Journalism keeps you planted in the earth. "

" I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars. "

" The important thing is to be in love with something. "

" I don't control my writing - it controls me. "

" Everything is generated through your own will power. "

" Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. "

" Electronic books are junk. "

" If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it. "

" I write screenplays in the middle of the night. "

" Most of my short stories are fantasy. "

" I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. "

" It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. "

" I don't believe in colleges and universities. "

" When you're older you want to learn from other people. "

" Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. "

" Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. "