As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed d...
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and sup...
I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he...
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pit...
In his grave, we praise him for his decency - but when he walked amongst us, we responded with no decency of our own.When he suggested that all men should have a place in the sun - we put a special sa...