When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

It could reach up and grab the moon.