I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Good to evil seems evil

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!

There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.