Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.