A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

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

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.

The day of the android has dawned.

The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

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