I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

We are what we pretend to be.