“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”

“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.”

“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”

“I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?”

“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.”

“I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun.”