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.

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

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.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.