I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

The important thing is to be in love with something.