I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.