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

He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")

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.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.