Technology gives us precision in forestry operations, but wisdom tells us where and when to apply it.
I think the best moments in my career are the ones where I'm just completely surprised by something.
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."