Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

You must write to the people's expertise.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.