I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.