The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see

When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.