Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .