"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid."

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

"The creative imagination is a wild animal. It cannot be tamed."

"I am not an optimist. I am a possibilist."

"I write fantasy and science fiction because I want to describe the world as I see it, not as it is supposed to be."