“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop readi…” — Ray Bradbury

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.