I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?

Life can only be live with grace and gratitude.

We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

i wish means: would it be nice if.. i want means: if i want it enough i will get it.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.