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.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.