You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.