I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

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.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.