But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

I become drunk as circumstances dictate.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.