As long as they talk about you, you’re not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn’t die, just because the man dies.

he’s not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you’ll rot in hell.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

I don’t think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don’t think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that’s what he...

For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity...

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn’t want my name attached to....

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.