Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

All history is a lie!

You have to respect all your competitors.

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

Many confuse understanding with believing.