If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Writing is a communication.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Without accepting our personality, we try to meet the requirements of the society and do everything to be accepted

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

I think honestly that Michael [Gove] came to this decision[Prime Minister candidate] very late, that he needed to step up.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.