I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

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 take this continent with me into the grave.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

Don't talk about it; write.