...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.