A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.

Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

I don't go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.