Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.

I know my lies are always wishes.

Women love only those whom they do not know!

I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people!

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.