Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.