You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.
Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.
People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it's as if books did die out.
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.
I never know what I'm going to talk about until I get on stage. I never give the same lecture twice, which is why I'll have people follow me from place to place like Deadheads.