Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.