“Love stories are built around people's idiosyncrasies.”

“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”

“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.”

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”

“The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.”

“A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.”