"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."
"Surprise is where creativity comes in."
"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."