My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

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

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.